Education research clusters

Our research approaches are diverse, inclusive and critical; we value research that both challenges and empowers.

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Childhood and Youth

Our research community is built around interdisciplinary perspectives and conceptions of childhood and youth, with a concern for their opportunities to live well, participate in society and express agency as social actors, while recognising the marginalisation of many children in varied contexts.

Childhood and Youth research

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Early Childhood Education

Focusing on children from birth to eight, in different settings, contexts and communities. We are interested in global discourses and local policy and practice contexts, using our research to create pathways that support transformative change.

Early Childhood Education research

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Education and Psychology

Bringing together many different articulations, critiques and applications of psychology to build knowledge and understanding of learning and learning contexts; looking at the barriers and challenges people face in education and in informing socially just and ethical practice.

Education and Psychology research

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Identity and Marginalised Communities

Cutting across the disciplines of disability studies; critical race theory; feminism; migration and psychology, and bringing together different theoretical perspectives and lived experience to stand united in our commitment to rooting out discrimination in all its intersectional forms.

Identity and Marginalised Communities research

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Knowledge Systems and Practices

Focusing on knowledge systems and practices at the intersections of institutions and the public, research and pedagogy, science and politics whilst exploring the potentialities offered by theory-fiction and creative-critical scholarship.

Knowledge Systems and Practices research

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Literacies and Language

An interdisciplinary cluster with an overarching focus on literacies and language in everyday life and specific learning contexts, both online and offline. We engage in cutting edge research with a wide range of external collaborators.

Literacies and Language research

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Pedagogy and Policy

Synthesising theory and practice across a variety of settings, driven by a deep-seated concern to address processes of marginalisation and minoritisation.

Pedagogy and Policy research